. >> you can use every part, you have to throw away the fin, so it really doesn't make sense to us. >> reporter: carl chan is organizing a protest to push the government to veto the bill. they are looking at it as hurting chinese american. >> if you want to bend the shark, you bend the whole shark, not only part of it, against one particular community. >> reporter: but the argument about the soup may be softening. >> there is a study done that surveyed california voters. and 70% of the chinese-american voters that were surveyed were in strong support of this bill. >> reporter: hong kong is the world importer of it. a few years back, hong kong city's oldest banned it. and this year, the organization concerned with the vulnerable species found that residents of hong kong were willing to omit it at weddings, the world admits it is in decline. >> i grew up eating it. i didn't know what a pain it water, once people find out what it is, where it comes from and what the problems with it are and the devastating elements, people can't help but be in favor of a ban. >> reporter: the governor ha